Richard Thompson

Big chimney

Richard Thompson


All of my life I feed the big chimney 
Coke and ore, I pour it in 
Food for the hungry mouth of the monster 
Got to keep the production rolling 

Black ore, brown ore and Santander 
Pour that Blue Billy onto the bell 
Eighteen hundredweight on the barrow 
Lift that ore and push like hell 

Pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 

Drive the steel bar into the taphole 
Pour the metal down into the sows 
Blasted one side, frozen the other side 
Rain and snow and sleet and blow 

Taller than the church's steeple 
Forever the big chimney owns my soul 
I'm midwife to a pig of iron 
Born of flame and sweat and coal 

Pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 

All of my life I feed the big chimney 
Coke and ore, I pour it in 
Food for the hungry mouth of the monster 
Got to keep the production rolling 

Pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron 
Making pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron, pig iron